AXIOM BootCamp 1, Craig Morrow, Oct 2021, Session 2

Session 2 of 4

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All right.

Good morning, everybody.

How we be today on this lovely Saturday, or for some of y'all afternoon.

Welcome to day five of Axiom Bootcamp.

How we be today?

As usual, I'll let everybody kind of get settled in, make sure everybody's logged in, and you can hear me and see me, and then we'll get going with the good stuff.

All right, bad habits are hard to break, they are hard to break, but that doesn't mean they can't be broken.

As everybody's getting settled in, logged in, making sure things are good, just make sure let me know.

Uh, if you can't hear me, if you can't see me.

It's one of these things where I've got my feed right here.

And, uh, as Chris can attest to, we do so many testing bells and whistles before we get on camera.

But until we start feeding to you guys, we have no idea.

All right.

Great color choice today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

You need to buy furniture.

If I buy furniture, if I put furniture all in here, I've got no place to swing.

As you know, what's more important?

Let's think about it.

What's more important, your golf swing or furniture?

I mean, it's all about priorities.

Where are we supposed to download the copy?

Hey, Daryl, if you didn't send an email to customer service and get that copy, I've been sending copies to players that haven't gotten it yet.

If you don't get one by the end of this session, you can email me, just craig at rotarieswing.

com, and I'll get you a copy straight over.

Let's see.

It'll be great weather this week in Texas for golf.

Fantastic.

And I'm going to kick you outside, too, for today's session.

So if you can, or you have the ability, weather-wise, what have you, to get outside and test some of this stuff, this is going to be the session.

Give just a couple more minutes.

Make sure everybody getting in there.

And speaking of sending the boot camp, I sent one to Todd right there this morning.

So how did everybody do?

How's everybody feeling with this?

We have some success so far?

I'll get into some stories that I've heard so far when we start breaking this down.

Good stuff?

Bad stuff?

Creating lag for the first time.

Love it, Brad.

Love it.

Hey, Juergen, how are we doing today?

One of my longtime compadres on the board.

Good, but some loss of balance.

No swing thoughts.

That's lovely.

In different parts of the world, I keep hearing at least on this board weather's been good took the dog for the walk this morning uh 19.

well the actual temperature was 24 but it said it felt like 19.

A little bit different for the Southern boy.

Biggest aha moment so far in my golf swing.

All right, nice.

I want to have a club in my hand.

My mechanics just aren't as smooth.

Yeah, it'll take some time, Daryl.

I mean, it's just one of the things.

Let's see.

Yeah, most people are in here, so I'll go ahead and just start talking about that.

I'm going to answer Daryl's question, but for this session, since this format and this software works much better than the ones that we previously used, for the comments, you know, highs, hellos, weather, positive stuff, all that.

Try to put the questions, if you have an actual question about this one, try to put it in the question tab.

It's much easier for me, I found out, to go to there than scroll through the chat.

I know I may have missed a couple questions in the last boot camp.

And that's just because on my screen, it's small and I'm having to fly through it.

But if it's in the question tab and I know what it's about.

So if you have questions, put them in the question tab.

Now, Daryl, that's one of the things with when you start changing the golf swing and especially adding the club and adding more pace, it's kind of like I tell my students a lot, it's like snapping.

When you first learn to snap, it's very awkward and clunky.

It's just like, all right, am I going to get this?

I don't know.

But then when you finally get it to do it, it's like, okay, now I can finally do this.

And then now I've done it so much.

Now I don't have to think about it and I can do it at pace.

When you start adding the club, it's going to feel weird.

It's going to be wonky and it's going to be like, I'm never going to get this.

Just stick with it.

It's like just learning to snap or anything that you've ever done.

It's just training a new movement pattern.

Hey, Axel, how are we doing this morning?

Watching with Romy.

Fantastic.

Let's see.

Uh, I'm going to go for the first just couple minutes, I'm going to go to the question tab.

Just answer a couple questions that I see and I know Chris will answer a few of those as well as he's still on the board and thank you for that, Chris.

And then I'm going to get started because we've got some good material to cover today.

So you have a tendency Giles to Fall forward when you move on your right toe.

Why?

Typically when you're balanced and everything's moving forward, as you start to go this way, you're adding upper half.

More than likely as you start to come down, you're trying to race with your upper half as well, adding a little bit too much kind of right side dominance or shoulder spin.

So when you start to make this motion over here to the toe, you're probably adding a lot of upper half force and that's what's driving that momentum out towards it.

We're supposed to download a copy of the PDF.

Yeah, Daryl already got that one.

Right glute's a little sore.

Just underused muscles now that I'm getting deep or bad technique.

No, Daryl.

I mean, can bad technique lead to sore muscles?

Absolutely.

But more than likely, you're starting to use things for the first time, like going to the gym for the first time.

I remember the first time.

Yeah, when I came to Rotary Way over a decade ago, when I was working with Chuck.

And I had a really big problem, kind of getting my left glute to activate and shifting.

And we did so much work that day, I remember waking up in my hotel room the next morning.

I've never felt my left butt cheek in my entire life, I felt it that morning.

So it should be a good sign.

Let's see beyond reps, which I'm trying not to skip.

Any tips on overcoming the mental switch that occurs when playing around, I seem to get automatically to try to muscle the swing.

Today's session will be good for you, David.

I mean, the the mental trick to this.

In the beginning, you can't worry about results.

It's more about the motion, and when you're trying to play a lot during a swing change, it's a little bit tough.

But today's actually, I think, going to be a big light bulb moment for you on that one.

The screen is extremely dark.

My screen or this screen?

This one, I know you're not going to be able to see.

It doesn't matter.

I've tried every setting under the planet to try to lighten, darken, the light sensors, all these things.

Right now, you can kind of see it, but at least better than the evening time.

I apologize.

I'm going to keep working with that, or I don't know.

Maybe I just have to buy a new TV.

Let's see.

When we start the weight on the ankles, that isn't at 12 o'clock, right?

More like four or five.

Gregory, I really don't want you to think of, you know, like, okay, well, I'm right here on the foot.

I'm going to start at 12, and now I'm going to kind of go one, two, three, four, five.

When you're balanced right here and you're kind of centered over your ankle joints, I mean, for some players, they may feel two back to six.

They may feel four back to six.

The goal is getting just the motion and getting that circular movement going, it's not about starting like exactly on the toes, let's see.

So I notice I hit it better as I start the downswing at six and right knee replace left knee.

Good, it's right where it starts, you get to six Trying to replace the knee but still fall back.

Need to get better balance.

Today I'll help you out with that, Thomas.

Because more than likely, you're caught in between how you're actually going to release the club.

When we start talking about releasing the club, I think that's going to balance you out because I think you're just caught in between.

Wrists are sore.

Must be doing something, right?

Once the weight goes to the left foot, should it start on the toes and then work towards the left heel?

Exactly.

It's going to move towards the ball of the foot, Jeff, and then move back towards the heel.

I think it'd look good in my video, but I would feel better if you looked at it.

Is that an option?

Absolutely, Todd.

That's what the community's for.

You can use the community, swing reviews, unlimited review groups, live lessons.

Happy to do it.

You can see Greg on the board was talking about the success that he had this week.

He gave me three videos on the community.

where I was helping them out, making sure that things were hunky-dory.

We're here to help you.

We want you to get this.

All right, I'm going to get two more, and then we're going to go.

When you get to 6 o'clock, it does feel like most of the weight on that side is mostly on the heel.

Yes.

My right hip, bone on bone.

Hard to get as many reps as I would like.

We'll have to take a look at that one, Greg.

All right.

Chris, 10 minutes in.

Let's go.

All right.

Don't worry, I just try to make sure all my bases are covered with everybody.

Don't worry, you get some good stuff today.

So let's talk about what we want to do today, or let's talk about where we're going with this.

Okay, so today we're going to talk about the release, because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how good the swing is if you don't release it.

It's kind of all for naught.

So hopefully we had some good success in between last session and this session, and I've gotten some great feedback from players that are feeling new things, seen some really good results so far, feeling shallow for the first time, started to create a little bit more lag.

And after we talk about this release, if you have any questions about the prior boot camp, if you need any other little helps and tricks to kind of get things going, happy to help you out with that.

This is very important.

And like I said, I know that this is going to be a little bit washed out.

And I know that some of y 'all don't have the PDF.

I just, I can't get to it right now.

So just bear with me.

Just if you don't have the PDF, get a sheet of paper, just take some notes.

I'm going to follow along exactly what's on this.

So you'll be able to go back and be like, oh, Craig said this.

It's point A, you know, section one, what have you.

So with the release, You got to pick a side.

And what I mean is, is that most players are going to typically be either lead side dominant or trail side dominant.

So for right-handed players, it's going to be either your left hand or your right hand or left side or right side.

Neither one is incorrect.

One is just going to typically suit a player better than another.

Now, personally speaking, when I first came to Rotary, 14, 15 years ago, I was a right side releaser.

And I spent all the time and did all the training.

And I turned myself into a left side releaser.

I can release from my right side.

I can release from my left side.

I personally stick with my left.

I spent a lot of years training it.

I like the ebb and flow of it, which we'll talk about.

So I've stuck with my left side.

The problem is, is a lot of you at home that are kind of right side dominant or more right side dominant.

You may not have.

The time that I had, I was playing for a living and I that was my job, so being that it was my job, I had the time to do it.

Some players just don't have the time, and some players just don't want to retrain an entire side of their body.

It's like, well, you know, I'm right side dominant.

I've done everything with my right side my entire life.

why can't you just help me use that side better?

Well, we're obviously in the business of being safe and efficient.

So we had to figure out how we could do that, protecting your body at the same time.

And so now we have an option.

You've got an option to be a left side release or a right side release.

And what I want to do is I want to talk about the differences.

I want to talk about the checkpoints.

And then one of the questions that I had on the community.

was how big a role does the ball play in this boot camp?

Because in prior boot camps, you don't have the ball until a little bit later.

I want you to take the information that I'm giving you today.

I want you to go out and do it.

I don't want you to waste any time.

I want you to go out and test it out because we're going to take this information and blend it into what we're doing on Tuesday's session.

So I need you to go out and test it.

If you can't, you can't get to a driving range.

Try a foam ball.

Try a potato.

Do what you can, because I really want you to start to kind of gauge what works best for you.

Just making sure.

Okay.

So the first thing that we're going to talk about is the release and which side.

And I want to make sure that, okay, I want to make sure I was on the right page.

You need to go test this out.

I'm going to tell you how I want you to test this out, but I want you to start to decide which side is more dominant for you.

And I'm going to give you some tips, see which one fits you better.

But I want you to do them both.

I think that's the big thing.

Some people come with this kind of preconceived notion like, oh, I'm just right side dominant.

I've been right side dominant.

So I'm just going to stick with that.

Try them both.

All right.

I never thought I would be a left side releaser.

But I am.

So I want you to try on both.

Experiment.

Now, the differences in the types of releases, that's the kind of big one.

So let's go with left first.

With left side releasers, it's going to be more of a classical version of the golf swing and a little bit kind of effortless.

So when you look at a left side releaser like an Ernie Els, myself, you're going to see a more classical version of the swing.

It's typically going to be a lot more rotation, a longer, more lackadaisical move, a more effortless move because you're having to combine a lot of different principles to get some good power out of it.

You're more focusing on kind of sequencing and hitting these kind of checkpoints along the way, stretching muscle, activating muscle, engaging.

The big thing in more of an effortless left side release is it must be passive.

Okay, so you'll see that I've got effortless and then less controlled and manipulated.

Those are very two big things with a left side release.

When you're controlling the club with your left side, this arm and hand must be very passive.

I'm using my body pivot and my rotation to move my arm and hand down, and kind of use this double pendulum from my lead shoulder socket or my left shoulder socket.

As I start to come down here, the arm, the hand, I've got this pendulum from my shoulder, then I've got this releasing from my wrist.

Now, the big thing with a left side release is you can't force that to happen.

It needs to happen automatically, and it needs to happen as a byproduct of everything else that you're doing.

So this side has to be very passive, very effortless.

You're using more physics than a left side release, okay?

And we'll talk about more of the physics in a second.

But the big thing is you're kind of not in control of your car on this one.

Not your hands.

You're not steering anything with this.

This is the kind of letting it go release.

Now, you'll see right here, the club will always be rotating.

In a left side release, the club's always going to be rotating.

Not at one point do I want you to try to steer the face, nor control the face.

If you're tending to be the player that wants to.

kind of air a little bit more side on a draw.

And that doesn't mean that right side releasers can't hit draws.

Okay.

But a left side releaser is going to tend to air a little bit more towards a draw.

Because you're going to have this natural rotation of the toe around the heel, squaring the face and rotating.

And it's going to tend to lead itself towards hitting a little bit more of a draw by a shot.

So when we look at a left side release, It's got to be very passive, you're using your sequencing, there's not a whole lot of effort, you're using a lot of your body pivot.

And you kind of got to let the club do what it wants to do.

You're using the wider radius, you're using width as your ally.

Now, in the right side release, the swing is going to typically be a little bit more compact.

Now, if you have this PDF, you'll see the difference.

On the top version with Chuck, you're going to see this long left arm swing where that club's parallel to the ground.

Then you're going to see this right arm swing where it's a little bit more compact, a little shorter.

Now, he doesn't have a full shoulder rotation there, and we'd like a little bit more at that point.

This is more kind of sequencing the downswing, but it's going to be a more compact and with effort.

If you're the type of player that has struggled with.

letting it go.

Just, all right, I'm, you know, I'm just going to kind of sit and be laid back and kind of let this swing develop and let this happen.

The right side release might be better for you.

If you're just somebody that's like, I'll go, no quit.

Yeah.

Not, you know, not kind of Freddie laid back, but you're more of that wired guy.

I got all the caffeine.

I'm ready to go.

The right side of release may be for you because the thing is, is you can exert force.

This is the release where not I'm just kind of letting things kind of happen.

This is going to be more like your throwing motion, like throwing a ball or throwing anything that you want, throwing a club down the fairway, to be honest with you.

This is going to be more snappy.

You're using your trail arm and your trail side to exert force on this club.

And it's a little bit more kind of a thrust.

We don't really technically want to call it a push release, but you're using the thrust.

You're using the speed.

It's compact.

It's accelerating.

This is what's really propelling the club into impact.

So if you have a hard time kind of letting go and you like to add muscular effort, the right side release may be better suited for you.

Now, you're going to see two sections of this.

You're going to see more control and the club will stay more stable through the hitting area.

Now, in the left side release, You're letting this club just kind of do what it wants.

This club's rotating back and through because the club's always rotating.

You're just like, I don't have a care in the world.

In the right side release, you can keep this face a little bit square towards the target or through the hitting area to have better quality shots.

If you don't like the letting go, letting.

Physics take the wheel then.

This allows you to use a little bit more of your trail side to basically keep the face a little bit square.

Now, one of the big things that people kind of misconstrued with this right side release is this face stays square all the way down here.

That's a big exaggeration, Okay, so some players have been like, well, I've looked at the tape drill, and I've looked at the left versus right video, and they start hitting all these kind of squirting shots.

This is happening very fast.

It's in a very brief moment or very small window.

When you're using the right side release, this face is going to stay square for just a little bit more through the hitting area.

It's going to feel like it's going down the target line a little bit more.

But that club is still going to rotate.

You're not sitting there, just holding it off for dear life.

You're just controlling it through impact a little bit more.

Okay, because you are adding the force to it.

Okay, and that's what I want to talk about.

So if you're thinking when you're experimenting going left versus right, If you're thinking you're going to be more of a left side releaser, let's talk about what you kind of really have to do with it.

So in a left side release or lead side dominant, you have to focus on allowing the club to square itself.

And that's the big one.

So how do we allow the club to square itself?

Well, in a left side release, as you start to work into impact, this club is going to rotate.

But this club isn't going to rotate.

If you are still rotating, right?

That's the big one.

As I start to work into impact and this club's working down into here and this club rotates, you essentially kind of have to slam on the brakes because you want the club, you want Sir Isaac Newton squaring up the face for you.

Now, we have tons of videos on the site, you know, five minutes, perfect release, BJ release drill, left-hand power release drill, tons of different videos to talk about this.

But the big thing is that this club wants to rotate.

You've got the shaft and the heel, heel -toe balance.

This toe wants to rotate around this heel.

And typically, in a properly released golf shot, this toe is rotating 12 miles an hour faster, and the center of the face is rotating 6 to 8 miles an hour faster than the heel.

So if you want 6 to 8 miles an hour for free, then what you have to do is you have to allow this face to rotate itself, but you can't do that if you are still rotating.

If I start to work down into the release and I'm gonna be a left side releaser and my shoulders keep spinning, what's this club not doing now?

If I get down here and I rip my shoulders down, you can see that this club isn't square.

But if I get up here and I start to work down and my shoulders stay square and this club continues to release independently of my body, This club now has to rotate.

As long as I'm passive, as long as I've got the tension out, focusing a little bit more on these last three lead fingers, this club will square itself.

It's one of the reasons why I tend to prefer a little bit more of a left side because I don't want to have to worry about controlling anything.

It's like I just get down here and I just let the club rotate.

Do what you want.

But the shoulders must stay square.

What Chris and myself see all the time is that players will come down here in a lead side release, and as they start to get through here, they forget that the shoulders need to stay square, and they rip their shoulders.

They're like, I don't understand why I'm hitting these blocks.

I don't understand why I'm hitting these slices over here.

And it's because this rotation is not allowing for the club to square up.

Now, also what comes with that is you can't yank it.

If you start to work through here, it's not about muscling it with the arm.

Remember, the number one rule of being a left side releaser, you're being passive.

So when you start to work down here, if you start to yank your arm and hand for power, you're going to start to raise your lead shoulder too high too soon.

You're going to start to hit them thin.

You're going to start to experience tops and blocks.

It's not about muscular effort with this lead arm.

As you can see, I'm not a very big guy.

Alright five nine and a half tell people I'm 510 Well, that was fun.

No idea what happened there.

I apologize.

Everybody back now?

Okay.

It got me a little worried for a second there.

Sorry for the technical difficulty.

I just looked at the screen.

Everything went black.

So in this left side release for this lead side release, as you start to come down here, You can't muscle this thing.

That's the biggie.

It's not about arm strength.

So not sure where the feet left off.

I'm not a very big guy.

All right.

But I can create a massive amount of club head speed.

I can get up in the 117s, 18s, 19s, what have you.

But it's not due to the fact that I'm muscling things through.

I'm using.

My big body pivot.

I'm a big fan of wit, so I'm using my big body pivot in my wit.

My legs, stretching my muscles, pulling leverage from the ground.

I mean, we can get into like paramedic acceleration and stuff, but we don't need to get into all that.

As we start to work down into here, I'm using the leverage pull from the ground.

I'm allowing everything to build up and at the last moment, let this club go and work independently of my body.

which is the big one.

In a left side release, you must let the club work independently of the body or it's all for naught.

The club will not square itself and you will not have that speed.

I'm getting down here and slamming on the brakes so that this club starts screaming through.

Got all that momentum coming in, this club rotating, all the speed to be delivered.

It comes from the fact that I slam on the brake and the club has to work independently of the body.

Okay?

But you've got to be chilled out to do that.

It's not about muscular effort.

Okay?

Now, on the flip side of the equation, the right side release or the trail side release?

The trail side release, if you don't like that whole letting go, laid back, it can be a little bit more about effort because it kind of is.

Now you can kind of choose whether you want to be a little bit more effort or clubface control is more your forte.

Okay.

So when we look at the right side release, the arm and hand is going to extend from the shoulder like throwing a ball.

Okay.

So just like throwing a ball, it's going to extend from the shoulder like throwing a ball.

Now this can be very powerful.

Okay, we've got three different levers to work with.

You got the shoulder elevation.

You got the flexion from your elbow.

You got your wrist load.

And when you get here, you can use that to propel and work into impact and exert some steam on that club so you can get that onto the golf ball.

That may be better suited for people.

You know, one of the things that we see is that when people start working on Axiom and we have them doing right arm only, this sequence of kind of shifting and clearing the hips and throwing the balls, very natural.

A lot of people have grown up throwing balls.

So this makes a lot of sense.

They're like, oh, okay, well, I can start working down with the club right here and I can exert this force with my right hand to apply more speed.

No problem, have at We've always talked about how the left side is the control side and the right side your power side.

Well, it's still the case.

Both arms still have a job in whichever release that you pick, but this side can add a little bit more force.

You've got these three levers to work with.

Now, the big key is people start to get confused in these two sections right here.

Shoulders may open slightly or right hand will add stability for impact.

Let's talk about the shoulder issue first.

When you're using more of a right side release, as Chuck stated, it's going to work a little bit more like a three-stage rocket system.

So as you start to move the inside and you're getting that weight and the club shallows out, you're going to use your right hip, which is going to be the first one, your right shoulder, and then your right arm.

That's going to be the kind of sequence of using this right side.

So if you kind of look at me from down the line here, as you start to work into here, you're going to use the right hip, you're going to use the right shoulder, and you're going to use the right arm.

Now, I'm not saying, like, let's start spinning our shoulders or driving just hard from the right side.

If you just start getting to this position and just start driving your right shoulder and right arm without doing anything, you're just going to start getting steep and digging it into the ground.

there's still a sequence to this.

The right hip's driving, as you're already doing with the big toe, getting the hips to clear, the right shoulder's moving in front, and then you have your right arm pushing through, or thrusting through, whatever, whatever nomenclature works best.

So if the shoulder's open slightly, it's not the biggest thing in the world, because you are actually controlling this face right now, not Sir Isaac Newton.

Left side, the club's rotating itself, this one, you're actually forcing or controlling that club into impact, just following the same principles you've just done with axiom.

As you start to move to the inside, you've got the toe pushing, with the right hip, the right shoulder and the right arm coming through.

Now this benefits two types of players one the player that wants to use muscle.

All right, because you can use.

You're forced to propel this more.

So for people that just, they got to be in control, control freaks out there, and they work out and they're big and strong, you can use that muscular effort.

That's why a right side release swing is going to be a little bit more compact.

It's going to be a little bit more tidied up.

But this also can benefit the players that just hit it all over the face.

Now, I'm going to warn you or putting a warning label on this.

As I start to work through impact right here and I start to rotate more, it's obviously going to put a little bit more stress on my spine.

It has to.

Two things your spine hates is sheer force and compressive force.

But if you have a good spine and you don't get crazy with it, that's the big thing.

When we show and demonstrate things, we're showing a little bit of exaggerations because if I didn't show the exaggerations, you'd barely see it.

But if you're somebody that's always struggled with getting that clubface square and kind of hitting the good spot on the clubface.

Instead of it kind of being all over, as you start to work down from here, you can start to allow for a little bit more rotation and keep the clubface a little bit more down the line longer.

Because it's going to allow you to not have so much kind of variability in what that face is doing at impact.

So a player that's not really strong but struggles with getting that clubface square, As you're working on this same thing and the right hip's coming down and the shoulder and arm and hand, you can allow for a little bit more rotation from the body to hold that face a little bit square so you can hit a little bit better quality of shot.

Now, with anything in life, when you start taking from one area, you're going to delete the other area.

If you think about kind of like a bar graph, you start allowing for more of this, it's going to slow down a little bit of club head speed, but you're going to get more stability of the face.

You're going to get better contact.

So it's just give and take.

You can either add a little bit more effort, or if you're like, I don't really care about the distance and all that, I hit it plenty far, but I kind of hit it all over the face.

Well, then as you're using this working through impact, you can let a little bit of the chest open and keep it square a little bit longer.

You don't have to exert all this crazy amount of massive force.

So those are the two differences.

And you'll see the pictures up here.

This is a still of Chuck using a little bit more of a right side release.

So you'll see the shoulders are slightly open.

I'm not saying get to impact and be like this.

Slightly.

You'll see that his right hips are driving, his right shoulders driving, and the arm and hands extending through and feeling like it's staying a little bit more down the line.

Now, I've put this one in here because in the left side release, I think that the right side picture really depicts what you're going to kind of feel when you're doing the left side.

To most of you, it is going to feel like your shoulders are closed.

As many clinics as I've taught and Chris has taught and Chuck's taught, anytime somebody's working on a left side release, we see it all the time.

Shoulders wide open.

They're like, I don't know why I'm hitting it right.

Well, look at your shoulders.

For most players being a left side release, you're almost going to feel Like your chest and your upper half stay a little bit closed because you're so used to spinning.

You're so used to doing a ton with your upper half.

So you're going to see how Chuck's chest is square, almost even slightly closed.

The hips are still working, but the club's releasing itself into the back.

But I think that's the big one that we see.

If you get the leg work down, you can't use the shoulders.

So how are we going to do this?

Or how do I want you to do this?

Well, as with the Axiom, as you're going through and you're still working on getting these components down, I want you to take both these out and I want you to test drive them.

Now I'm going to change it up just a little bit kind of how I want you to test drive them though.

I was thinking about this this morning actually.

So when you go out and test drive this, And you see whether you're a little bit more left side or you see a little bit more right side.

With the left side, I kind of want you to work up.

So you can see right here as I'm doing kind of more of a left side lead hand release.

I'm making a full swing here and I'm getting up here and still following my pressure stiff, still using my legs.

Nothing changes.

I seem to find that players have a little bit more of a harder time kind of starting out in that foray.

and they tend to yank, and that's kind of the big thing.

I don't want you to not think that this doesn't work for you just because you went too big or tried to soar too high too soon.

You're like, well, left side release doesn't work for me, but it's just that you got into yanking because you made the swing too big too early, okay?

So your homework to go test out the left side release.

The first thing I want you to do, and Chris has got a really good video on this.

I don't know exactly the section, but it's play the best golf of your life in six weeks video to a six.

Really good video.

With the left side release, I just want you to kind of get a feel for letting the club just rotate back and forth here for a second.

Just delete all the tension in your left arm.

And if you can do this at home, get up and do this with me, okay?

Don't take a chunk out of your hardwood or anything.

I'm not liable for any of that.

But if at home you can do this, get up.

Let's do this together.

I want you to take your setup.

Don't worry about any other crazy mechanics or anything like that right now.

I just want you to start feeling the club rotate back and forth.

Just start feeling how this arm and hand kind of swings from the shoulder socket like a pendulum.

Okay.

Just kind of get a feel for it.

You don't have no big swing.

Just kind of keep it down here, belt high to belt high.

But just kind of get a feeling for how this club works back and forth.

I really want you to just kind of get lulled into, oh, I feel the toe rotate, square, and rotate over.

I don't want to see the club face facing the sky.

There's no need to get here and then just rip it inside.

All you're doing is just letting the toe rotate.

And rotate.

Just getting out some tension.

Just kind of letting it be.

I mean, I could sit here and do this for an hour because that's how much effort I'm not applying.

Just sit here and do this back and forth.

Once you can kind of shake a little bit of that tension out, you can get a little bit of feel for the release.

The beauty with the lead side release is you can start out a little bit on the smaller versions.

So I want you to take your setup.

I want you to take your left arm.

And I want you to just feel.

these nice little pressure shifts and start to make the swing a little bit longer and longer.

Now, keep in mind, still rotate, still do everything that we've done up until this point.

But I kind of want you to build up into it.

So you kind of get this left arm going, getting that tension out, and then just start kind of moving just a little bit more, feeling the pressure shift, but 1000 feeling that same kind of laissez 1001 -fairness in the release.

1002 Now, what I want you to notice is I'm 1003 doing this, 1004 going my pressure shift, still got my 1005 rotation.

1006 My tension level is zero in my arm hand 1007 and club.

I'm just feeling the club 1008 rotate back and forth.

1009 Notice how when I get over here, 1010 what position am I in right here?

1011 You're going to see that my hip is 1012 stacked.

My hips are still clear.

My 1013 shoulders aren't spun open.

1014 When you start to kind of do this, you're 1015 going to have to kind of be a little bit 1016 of your own doctor on this.

You're going 1017 to have to check some points so they know 1018 like, oh, am I releasing it?

Or am I just 1019 kind of getting away with things?

Or I 1020 feel like I'm doing it right, but the 1021 ball's not going worth a darn.

1022 So as you go from here and you kind of 1023 get some momentum out or you get some 1024 momentum going, but you take this tension 1025 out and you start to swing through here.

1026 and you're moving through your pressure 1027 shift, and you're moving through the 1028 positions.

When you get over to here and 1029 you hit the shot, what I want you to 1030 start looking for is your shoulders open.

1031 Is the club released?

1032 Are you staying passive enough to let 1033 this club release?

In fact, you can see 1034 my club's a little bit toe down right 1035 now.

1036 Okay?

1037 Am I off my right side?

Did my hips still 1038 clear?

Did my weight get over here?

You 1039 still have to hit.

The same kind of 1040 fundamental checkpoints of what we were 1041 doing with Axiom.

You're moving through, 1042 the weight got over here, the hip 1043 cleared, the club released.

But you have 1044 to start getting that feeling of this 1045 releasing kind of independently in the 1046 club squaring itself.

And you can't do 1047 that if you're hanging back over here, 1048 your shoulders are spun open.

1049 And what else?

One of our biggest pet 1050 peeves.

1051 The head.

1052 When you're doing this left side release 1053 and you're moving through your axiom 1054 positions, just getting a feel for 1055 swinging the left arm and releasing, as 1056 you start to work down into the release 1057 position, you can't have this.

1058 And what am I doing wrong right there?

1059 I'm looking down the fairway, interested 1060 in the result.

1061 Where the eyes go, the head goes.

Where 1062 the head goes, the shoulders go.

1063 And what I tell you about the shoulders 1064 that you can't do in a left side release.

1065 So when you're doing this, you have to 1066 keep the head down.

1067 Until your club is fully released, I 1068 don't want you looking at what's going on 1069 with that stupid golf ball.

All right?

1070 Because especially if you do that, golf 1071 ball is probably going to fly the way 1072 that you want it to.

So you don't have to 1073 worry about it.

It's just going to kind 1074 of go straight.

Maybe a touch of baby 1075 draw on it.

1076 So you'll know where it is.

You don't 1077 need a four caddy.

1078 But the big thing is, is you have to turn 1079 it off.

You're moving through your axiom 1080 movements, and you're starting to get the 1081 feel, this club releasing independently, 1082 that your hips are open, your shoulders 1083 are square, 1084 the club release, and the head down.

1085 Now, the difference in this is going to 1086 be when we switch to a little bit more of 1087 a right side.

1088 The right side, I really wouldn't 1089 recommend kind of starting off small and 1090 then kind of building up into just a 1091 little bit more of a fluid, more kind of 1092 classical-looking swing.

1093 The right side, it's going to be hard to 1094 just kind of get here and kind of throw 1095 your right arm and hand at it without the 1096 left arm on the club, or at least I've 1097 come to find that out in my own testing 1098 with students and myself.

1099 So with the right arm, it's still going 1100 to kind of be that kind of three-quarter, 1101 a little bit more compact, buttoned-up 1102 swing.

1103 Now, we have to be very careful with 1104 this.

1105 As you're doing this with the right arm, 1106 it's obviously going to follow the same 1107 principles you've done in your axiom 1108 mode, okay?

So you're moving your 1109 pressure back to six o'clock, you're 1110 still rotating, and we're going to kind 1111 of make this a little bit more compact, 1112 three-quarter looking swing.

1113 And then as you start to come down and 1114 you're moving the pressure shift and you 1115 start to move towards the toe, you're 1116 going to feel like you're slinging a rock 1117 or throwing the club.

1118 You need to start to get the feel of kind 1119 of the whipping action.

1120 You're moving to here, you start to come 1121 down, and you let the club whip.

1122 Now you'll see, I'm still letting this 1123 club rotate.

1124 This is by far the number one thing that 1125 I see when people start trying to do 1126 right side, is they get here, and they 1127 start working up towards the top, and 1128 they hold it like this.

1129 This club is still releasing.

1130 Okay?

1131 It's just going to be a little bit more 1132 stable through here because you're 1133 controlling it just a little bit more 1134 with this right side.

You're using that 1135 kind of three-stage rocket.

You move the 1136 pressure shift in this way.

You're 1137 driving the right hip, the shoulder, the 1138 arm, and hand through.

But the club still 1139 releases.

1140 As I said earlier, we exaggerate 1141 sometimes just to show on camera.

1142 Okay?

1143 But I want you to get a feel for doing it 1144 that way.

1145 Here, here, here.

1146 Let it go.

1147 The shoulders may open up a little bit.

1148 You may feel a little bit more down the 1149 line.

You may get off this right side a 1150 little bit more because you start feeling 1151 that this right hip really wants to help 1152 kind of engage and thrust this arm and 1153 hand through.

1154 But the big thing is, I think you need to 1155 test them both.

1156 I've done both in my career.

1157 Chuck's even done both.

1158 He's kind of gone from one to another and 1159 then back to another.

1160 Tiger has done the same thing.

1161 But this may be a little bit more natural 1162 with all the training that you've already 1163 done.

Like, hey, you know what?

I can get 1164 this.

I don't need to spend six months to 1165 get this feeling.

I can kind of refine 1166 this a little bit more on the sooner 1167 side.

1168 But test them out.

1169 Follow the same axiom principles we've 1170 been doing all the way up to this point.

1171 Okay, still using the pressure stuff, 1172 still getting the clockwise nature of the 1173 swing coming down, and then as you get 1174 through here, test them out both.

Get the 1175 feel for them.

1176 One's going to tend to lend itself to a 1177 certain type of player.

1178 Okay.

1179 Our goal, 1180 if my screen will change, 1181 Our goal between now and Tuesday's 1182 session is to kind of pick a sign.

1183 I don't expect everybody to get this in 1184 that short amount of time.

I do not.

1185 But start to plant the seed.

1186 Start to kind of decide.

You know what?

1187 On Saturday, I tried this a little bit.

1188 After doing my Axiom reps, as you will 1189 see there.

1190 Saturday, I tried this a little bit.

1191 Sunday, I did the same thing.

Monday, 1192 I'll tell you what, over those three 1193 days, one just felt a little bit better 1194 than the other.

1195 It just seems like this isn't going to be 1196 such a chore.

Maybe the left side.

You're 1197 like, oh, you know what?

I kind of like 1198 what this ball is doing.

1199 Kind of feels a little bit more natural 1200 to me.

It might be the right side where 1201 it's like, you know what?

I just really 1202 like adding force.

I really like doing 1203 something.

1204 And if I can do something and feel more 1205 in control, I think I can get this.

1206 But the goal is to test it out.

It's not 1207 really to go and master the movement or 1208 put in as many reps as you can.

Like I 1209 don't want you to go out there today or 1210 on Sunday and be like, all right, I'm 1211 going to make 200 lead arm only swings 1212 and I'm going to get this lead side 1213 release down.

Now I'm going to make 200 1214 trail arm only swings and I'm going to 1215 get, that's not the goal.

The goal is to 1216 find out what works best for you.

I want 1217 you playing better golf on the sooner 1218 side.

1219 Okay?

1220 So I want you to kind of be aware of 1221 which one's like, you know what?

1222 Yeah, like it might not be perfect, but I 1223 can kind of refine this really fast.

I 1224 can make this work.

1225 That's the goal.

It's not the number of 1226 reps.

It's to start to plant the seed 1227 like, you know what?

I'm going to start 1228 to draw a line in the sand.

I'm going to 1229 focus.

I'm going to commit on being more 1230 of a right-side releaser.

That just fits 1231 me better.

1232 Or I'm going to be more of a left-side 1233 releaser.

I'm just more of a laid-back 1234 guy.

I'm going to let the club do what it 1235 wants to do.

1236 That's the goal.

You keep getting down 1237 your reps of working on your pressure 1238 shift and working on your legs.

And 1239 moving through these positions so that 1240 you keep owning them.

1241 But start to plant the seed.

1242 Which side is going to be dominant?

Or 1243 which side do you want to be dominant?

1244 Because that's going to be what I need to 1245 use or what we're going to use in the 1246 next section.

1247 Because I don't like wasting any reps.

1248 Okay?

1249 Don't like wasting reps.

So by the time 1250 we get there and you start really repping 1251 then, I want you to kind of know which 1252 path and which direction you're going.

1253 Okay?

1254 So between now and Tuesday, 1255 we continue to rep our body, arm, and 1256 club.

Some of you at this point may still 1257 just be on the foot, going around my 1258 pressure, getting my hip cleared.

1259 Some of you at this point may be like, 1260 oh, I got that.

It's arm or it's both 1261 hands.

1262 Continue to rep at the pace that you need 1263 it right now.

1264 But start kind of drawing a line in the 1265 sand.

I want to be a right side or left 1266 side.

I don't expect it to be 100%.

Start 1267 to be a little bit aware of it because on 1268 Tuesday, I'm going to want you to really 1269 start working and really start kind of 1270 refining and making that the kind of 1271 driver of your car.

Okay?

1272 So looking at this screen right here, it 1273 looks like I've got a couple questions up 1274 there.

1275 All right.

1276 So with that, let's do some questions.

1277 All right.

I think that's kind of all I 1278 want to say.

You want to see different 1279 views.

You want to see different angles.

1280 Let's try to keep the questions on the 1281 topic at hand or the previous topic.

All 1282 right.

I don't want to talk about 1283 refinement yet and perfecting it or 1284 anything like that.

But if you have 1285 questions about what we're doing with the 1286 Axiom portion, you have questions about 1287 what we're doing with the release 1288 portion, have at it.

All right.

If you 1289 need to see things from different angles, 1290 you know, if you want to see it from up 1291 the line, if you want to see it from down 1292 the line, whatever you want, let's go 1293 ahead and start firing them through.

It 1294 looks like Chris has been doing a little 1295 bit there.

1296 And if you have questions just for me, 1297 You know, why I'm a lead side releaser, 1298 why I haven't gone back to a trail side 1299 releaser.

1300 Open forum.

1301 But please, try to post the questions on 1302 the question bank, okay?

The chat bank is 1303 virtually impossible for me to get 1304 because it just flies right through with 1305 where I am.

So if you have a question, 1306 please post it on the question bank.

1307 All right.

1308 So let me see where I kind of left off.

1309 All right.

Well, we will start with, 1310 let's see.

I don't know how many of those 1311 have been answered.

1312 So we'll go with Gerald right here.

1313 That's where I'm going to start.

If your 1314 question's above Gerald, just post it 1315 again.

I apologize.

I was just trying to 1316 get through this.

You said that the right 1317 side right hand keeps the space square 1318 longer, but you also said that the left 1319 hand is still the control hand.

Please 1320 clarify, is the left a passive passenger?

1321 Okay, so the left is still controlling 1322 things, but what you'll notice as I start 1323 to work through here with my right arm 1324 and hand, if I'm maintaining my elbow 1325 position, and the flexion in my wrist to 1326 exert force down here at impact, what's 1327 my lead wrist?

Well, my lead wrist is 1328 going to be flat to bode as it is in a 1329 left hand release.

The left hand still 1330 has a job, 1331 okay?

1332 One side is more dominant than the other, 1333 but that doesn't mean that this still 1334 doesn't have any control over it.

You're 1335 feeling the force in the effort that 1336 you're using with this hand, but that 1337 just doesn't mean that this hand's dead, 1338 all right?

Doesn't mean that it's dead.

1339 Now, in a left side release, you might as 1340 well just go ahead and cut this thing 1341 off.

But it is a little bit more of a 1342 kind of a passive conduit of power.

1343 Okay?

You're just not controlling any 1344 face angles with it.

1345 Both hands still have a job.

Just one's 1346 more dominant than the other.

It's not 1347 that on the right hand one, this one's 1348 dead.

1349 Chris, I had a swinger review, so I have 1350 several spinal flus you said for me.

I'll 1351 leave that one for you, Chris.

1352 Please do slow motion of the foot 1353 movement on all angles.

1354 Okay.

1355 So as I'm making this pressure shift and 1356 I'm moving around my foot from here, 1357 you're starting.

Don't think about 1358 starting at 12.

You're going 3, 6, 9, 1359 back to 12.

And that's what creates the 1360 ankle orbit, and that's what creates the 1361 hip orbit.

1362 Okay.

1363 So this movement, you move back to 6, 9, 1364 get off the toe.

1365 3, 6, 9, get off the toe.

We don't want 1366 to see this foot lifting this way, nor as 1367 you start to go back towards that heel.

1368 And you move back towards six 1369 and like I said, this is a big section 1370 with this release, and I have no idea why 1371 that's on the screen.

1372 As you start to come down through here, 1373 you probably haven't picked which side is 1374 kind of controlling things.

1375 So you're probably coming through here, 1376 and you're kind of spinning open your 1377 shoulders a little bit with a little 1378 tension in the hands, which is probably 1379 leaving the face a little bit open right 1380 now.

1381 Just kind of the nature of the beast with 1382 that.

1383 At what point do you know whether to 1384 choose right or left release and what 1385 will it feel like?

Kind of aha moment.

1386 The aha moment with this is a little bit 1387 tough.

1388 It'll obviously take more time than kind 1389 of what we have in between this session 1390 and Tuesday's session.

1391 I can tell you mine.

1392 The big thing was my big aha moment of 1393 going, I guess, TV just doesn't care 1394 anymore.

My big aha moment of just going 1395 from a right side release to a left side 1396 release is how simple it was for me to 1397 hit it straight.

1398 I felt like my effort point was at 1%, 1399 but the ball is compressed and jumping 1400 off the face and going dead straight 1401 every time.

I'm like, why is this ball 1402 going straight?

I'm not making it go 1403 straight.

This doesn't make any sense to 1404 1405 Because I'd always had made things 1406 happen.

And then the more and more I had 1407 that feeling of, wow, I'm not really 1408 doing hardly anything, but the ball's 1409 doing the same thing every single time.

1410 My aha moment was, for the first time, 1411 not controlling things actually gave me 1412 control.

The old adage of you give up 1413 control to gain control drove me 1414 absolutely insane when I was a kid.

1415 My aha moment was actually realizing 1416 that.

The less that I actually did, the 1417 better it actually went.

1418 Oh, that just made a big jump.

1419 Left side, we should stop and be square 1420 with the shoulders.

It put on the brakes.

1421 I seem to hit behind the ball.

So with 1422 left side, if you're stopping with the 1423 shoulders and you seem to hit behind the 1424 ball, there's three things that I want 1425 you to check.

The very first thing is 1426 making sure you're just not pushing with 1427 that thumb.

1428 So you can take the thumb off.

If you're 1429 doing the left side, you can take the 1430 thumb off just to make sure you're not 1431 throwing that thumb.

The other two things 1432 that I want you to check is to make sure 1433 that you did get your weight over here 1434 and you did get your hip cleared.

You've 1435 got to provide space for this.

1436 You need the clearance of the hips to 1437 provide the space to work into impact.

1438 And remember, as you're sitting here and 1439 posting up, you're moving in which 1440 direction?

You're moving back and away to 1441 get the club to go down and out.

Well, if 1442 you start to work through here, right 1443 side or left side, you start to work into 1444 impact here and your hips stall out, 1445 well, you're either going to get this, 1446 pushing with the thumb, you're going to 1447 yank with the arm.

You don't have the 1448 space.

So you have to make sure that the 1449 hips finish their weight and keep 1450 releasing.

Same thing with the right 1451 hand.

If you don't keep the hips going 1452 and get those hips cleared in a right 1453 hand release, 1454 You're just gonna steepen the angle.

This 1455 leading head's gonna dig and you're gonna 1456 hit a chunk or you're gonna hit this big 1457 old flip hook.

You start to work down 1458 into this position.

You forget about the 1459 hips and you're like, I'm just gonna 1460 concentrate on throwing my right arm, but 1461 you don't move your hips.

1462 Well, what's that club gonna do?

Then 1463 you're gonna hit a big old right-handed 1464 flip hook.

1465 So check your thumb, make sure you move 1466 those legs.

1467 Okay, so now.

When I hit ball to my 1468 right hand only, no problem.

I hit ball 1469 like 20-yard crisp.

Left arm only, the 1470 ball goes nowhere hard to make contact.

1471 I'm more of a right-side player.

1472 Can't make that decision for you, 1473 Gregory.

1474 But I will say this.

1475 I'm going to go back.

So left arm only, 1476 ball goes nowhere.

1477 Left arm only requires you to move.

1478 So if you're just getting there like this 1479 left arm only and you're not moving your 1480 legs, you need this buildup with the 1481 weight, the post, and the effortless 1482 release.

You're probably just arming it, 1483 which is why muscular effort with the arm 1484 and a lead side release is going to lead 1485 to nothing.

But if you did 20 balls and 1486 everything's just like, man, this feels 1487 great.

1488 Why fight it?

1489 Looking at your swing, Greg?

1490 I would tend to say I understand why 1491 right side fits you a little bit better.

1492 Not making that decision for you.

1493 Can you demonstrate with impact bag, 1494 drill for left side?

1495 Looks like.

Drill with impact bag, drill 1496 for left side.

1497 So if you're left side, as you start to 1498 work through here, And you're moving 1499 through your pressure shift, you're 1500 moving through your axiom and your line 1501 for a big pivot.

Because you have to have 1502 a big pivot to work through here as you 1503 start to work down into this position, 1504 this is going to be what it looks like at 1505 impact.

The hips are open, 35 45 degrees.

1506 You can see my right foot isn't flat on 1507 the ground, slightly up on the outer 1508 edge, my shoulders are square.

Glove logo 1509 is facing the target.

Wrist is flat to 1510 bode.

1511 Club face square.

The biggest thing that 1512 we usually see when people go through 1513 here is they're like that.

So now my 1514 chest is open and my head's rotating down 1515 the fairway right now.

1516 So this doesn't allow this club to 1517 release.

It stays open right here.

So as 1518 you start to do a left side release and 1519 you work through this pressure shift, 1520 you're letting it go.

So your hips are 1521 going to be open.

Your shoulders are 1522 going to feel more square.

1523 Okay?

1524 All right, so that's to Chris.

1525 When moving the pressure from six to 1526 nine, it looks like you are driving the 1527 left knee.

Is that just a consequence of 1528 foot pressure?

Great question.

So when 1529 I'm moving from six to nine, okay, I've 1530 got this orbit in my hip that's starting 1531 to shift.

Well, what is my left knee 1532 going to do?

Am I trying to make this and 1533 keep my left knee pointed behind the 1534 ball?

The very first thing when you 1535 start.

to kind of shift weight in the 1536 downswing.

One of the very first things 1537 that happens is this lead knee externally 1538 rotates.

1539 Chris has a video, I think it's called 1540 Fixing Your Weight Transfer, that he 1541 talks about this first move where this 1542 lead knee externally rotates.

And we also 1543 have which muscles do you use in golf 1544 swing transition where Chuck kind of 1545 highlights.

1546 with all the fancy equipment like muscle 1547 engagement and stuff like that.

But this 1548 first move is this lead knee rotates, 1549 externally rotates.

I'm just allowing, as 1550 I go from six to nine, I'm just allowing 1551 my lead leg and lead hip to react.

I've 1552 just created this orbit.

And now with my 1553 hip getting over there, that would feel 1554 kind of wonky to keep my knee that way.

1555 I'm just allowing it to rotate because my 1556 hips are squaring and my weight is 1557 shifting.

So you're just allowing for 1558 that lead knee to externally rotate.

1559 Compact and left side release might be 1560 good for this group.

1561 Good for 50 plus age group.

Well, 1562 typically in a left side release, it's 1563 not going to be a very compact swing.

1564 But if you have a tendency to be a little 1565 bit more laid back, you're using more 1566 physics.

1567 So if you can use the body pivot and 1568 rotation and work down here with your 1569 legs, if you don't like exerting a lot of 1570 force, it may be a good option.

1571 Can't tell you which, but it's typically 1572 not going to be that compact of a swing.

1573 Now for me, for instance, 1574 as I start to load and rotate to the top, 1575 that's my full backswing, all right?

I'm 1576 a big fan of width.

I don't really like a 1577 whole lot of lag, but I'm a big fan of 1578 width.

So mine's compact and I have a 1579 left side release, but I have to really 1580 make sure that I get a full shoulder 1581 rotation and I have a ton of width so 1582 that I keep my power up.

1583 So I can't really say which one's better 1584 for others, but if your spine hurts and 1585 your body hurts, left side might be a 1586 little bit better for you because it's 1587 just less effort.

But if you're one of 1588 those, I'm going to do something, 1589 get that right side involved.

1590 Let's see.

No problem, Jeff.

1591 Good answer to impact bag position and 1592 foot for left side.

Please do right side.

1593 impact body foot position with bag.

It's 1594 not really going to change that much, 1595 Gerald.

1596 So that's what the, one of the things 1597 that obviously I hope I stressed enough 1598 was that the left side release and right 1599 side releases, all the swings practically 1600 staying the same except for this tiny bit 1601 in the release portion.

You're still 1602 shifting away all that fun stuff.

So if 1603 I'm using a little bit more of a right 1604 side release, Yeah, you technically can 1605 move the ball a little bit back if you 1606 want.

Just a hair versus a left side 1607 release.

But as I'm working through here 1608 more on a right side release, for me, I'm 1609 going to be a little bit more like this.

1610 Okay?

1611 So you're going to see I've really got a 1612 lot of angle.

I've really kind of 1613 delivered this right arm and hand into 1614 this position.

You're going to see that 1615 my chest is just a little bit more open 1616 here.

Now, you can still technically have 1617 that square, but for me, for a right side 1618 release to get my right arm and hand, 1619 hip, shoulder, extending up there.

You're 1620 going to see that my chest is just 1621 slightly open right here.

My foot was a 1622 little more aggressive because I was 1623 trying to add more kind of thrust from 1624 that right hip, right shoulder for power.

1625 I'm working through here and I'm adding 1626 more right hip, right shoulder here, 1627 thrust for power.

So when I get down to 1628 this position right here and I'm doing 1629 more of a right side release, everything 1630 stays the same.

1631 But you're going to see, 1632 forward shaft lean may be a little bit 1633 exaggerated right here, but I'm getting 1634 off this right side with a little bit 1635 more force.

Chest might be slightly more 1636 open.

And what you'll also kind of see 1637 down the line is I work through here and 1638 I get into this position, and my side 1639 bend's starting to kind of increase just 1640 a little bit there because my head's 1641 staying down, my right shoulder's getting 1642 just a little bit lower, my left a little 1643 bit higher.

1644 But I was more aggressive with this side.

1645 with my hip action and letting my right 1646 arm and hand and shoulder kind of throw 1647 into the ball.

So it's just slight 1648 tweaks, 1649 okay?

It's not that crazy different.

1650 Thanks, Chris and Craig on Compact Left 1651 Answer.

No problem, Mohan.

1652 Hopefully your son's watching this too.

1653 How do we keep the feel and not have 1654 swing thoughts if we're trying to focus 1655 on being right side or left?

1656 Because this is a feel.

Like I said, I 1657 don't care about the crazy mechanics of 1658 it right now.

1659 The checkpoints I was giving you on the 1660 left side versus right side is just if 1661 you start trying it and the ball's going 1662 all over the place and you're like, I 1663 don't know which side to pick.

1664 I still want you making your axiom feel 1665 and just swinging the lead arm to the top 1666 and letting it release.

1667 But if you're swinging your lead arm to 1668 the top and letting it release, but by 1669 the time you get down to impact right 1670 here, your shoulders are like this, 1671 it doesn't matter whether you're using 1672 left side or right side.

1673 Neither of them are going to work.

So the 1674 checkpoints I'm giving you is just so 1675 that when you're experimenting with it, 1676 like, Okay, I'm feeling my way through my 1677 axiom.

Lead arm only or left arm only?

1678 All right, well, not really hitting the 1679 ball well, Craig told me.

Like, you know, 1680 I can't have my chest wide open, so just 1681 slow down the chest a little bit, or I 1682 can't be looking way down the fairway.

1683 Just keep the head down a little, that's 1684 to help you.

Um, 1685 Kind of dial it down if nothing's 1686 working.

Well, look at a couple 1687 checkpoints.

Make sure that you're 1688 somewhat doing it correctly.

You don't 1689 have to have everything perfect, but 1690 somewhat doing it correctly so you can 1691 get some results from it.

1692 All right.

1693 I think that's it.

1694 Any other questions on my end?

1695 Anybody?

1696 Bueller?

1697 Saturday morning, you're going to have 1698 somewhat of a sense of humor.

1699 No questions.

Nothing else on my end.

1700 Kind of gone dark.

1701 Well, I guess that's it then.

1702 1703 thank you for giving me an opportunity 1704 today.

Thanks for coming in.

Thanks for 1705 stopping by.

I apologize about the little 1706 blip.

I have no idea what happened on 1707 that.

I'm just glad that it reconnected 1708 back and we got it to work.

1709 If you don't have the PDF, 1710 send me an email real fast.

I'll get it 1711 to you.

1712 The main thing is keep up with your reps.

1713 Keep up with the feel.

I want you to go 1714 experiment.

1715 Go try out.

See which one fits you 1716 better.

1717 Okay?

I don't expect you to own it or be 1718 like, oh, I'm just diehard this, but kind 1719 of get a seed planted.

Yeah, this one 1720 kind of feels a little bit more natural.

1721 That way, on Tuesday, when we really 1722 start using it, you can kind of stick 1723 with that motion, 1724 okay?

You can kind of stick with that.

1725 So if no other questions, 1726 thank you again.

1727 Remember, we are here to help you.

1728 Community page, swing reviews, unlimited 1729 review groups, live lessons, hit us up.

1730 You can find us anywhere, all right?

We 1731 want you to succeed.

1732 Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend.

1733 Hope everybody enjoyed today's session.

1734 I see one more question.

I'm going to 1735 answer that, and then I'm going to duck 1736 on out.

What causes the right knee to 1737 replace the left knee at the end of the 1738 swing?

1739 As you are moving off your pressure shift 1740 from 9 o'clock, you are pushing off this 1741 side.

You're using the push off this foot 1742 and the left hip clearing.

1743 So you're using the push with this left 1744 hip clearing and left leg straightening.

1745 That's how we work to this position, or 1746 this kind of.

Left knee replaces the 1747 right in this full finish.

You're using 1748 the pressure shift, you're being dynamic, 1749 getting off of this trail foot.

Okay, 1750 we're being dynamic, you're letting the 1751 lead hip react.

Remember, we got a great 1752 question earlier.

When you start to make 1753 this pressure shift, where does the 1754 weight and where does the movement go on 1755 the lead leg?

Well, as I make my pressure 1756 shift this way, 1757 My weight's going to move towards the 1758 ball of my foot and then quickly move 1759 back towards my heel.

As it moves towards 1760 the ball of the foot, 1761 quickly back towards my heel, my lead 1762 leg's going to straighten.

My left hip's 1763 going to clear.

And my right knee, since 1764 I'm adding this kind of push off this big 1765 toe, I'm getting the weight off that side 1766 and it's taking the place of the left 1767 knee.

1768 All right.

1769 All good?

All right.

1770 Well, everybody, I hope you have a 1771 wonderful weekend.

1772 Thank you again.

1773 And I think we're good.

1774 All right.

Have a good weekend.

See you 1775 Tuesday.

1776 Go rep.

Go test out both sides.